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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago"
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:41:54 -0700
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Yes.
>
> In any case, most likely these objects would have been packed anyway 
> during that period, so they would have been pruned by the repack called by 
> git-gc.

Yes, that is the most probable way for these unused cruft to get removed.

> My patch really, really is about _unreferenced_ loose objects, i.e. 
> something you get by multiple "git add"s without commits.  And by merge 
> conflicts.
>
> IOW by objects that were never referenced by commit objects.